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Here’s an excerpt from D.H.Lawrence’s Dog Tired. A beautiful poem I came across today and felt compelled to re-read several times. “If she would come to me here […] We could gather up the dry hay from The hill-brow, and lie quite still, till the green Sky ceased to quiver, and lost its active sheen. […]

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I’m sharing a paragraph written by Randa Jarrar, an author I discovered today, while reading Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World. Her story, A Sailor, is one of the pieces published in this collection. “He tells her he thinks she married him because he is precisely the kind of man who […]

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I’m reading Elements of Wit by Benjamin Errett. It’s a very interesting book with some surprising stories in it. I’ll write a longer blog post about it by the end of the week. In the meantime, here is something that most writers will appreciate: a witty dedication. “To my children, Helena and Theodore, without whose […]

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I’m trying to read “Tangled” by Emma Chase. It’s not easy. I have to force myself not to roll my eyes every few seconds or so. Have you ever tried reading while rolling your eyes? It’s bloody hard! The story is not too bad. At least I don’t think it is. I’m only at page […]

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“The Internet is 55 percent porn and 45 percent writers.” Thus opens the first chapter of “The Kick-Ass Writer” by Chuck Wendig. Now, as far as I’m concerned, any book that manages to squeeze the word “porn” into the first six words of its very first sentence is bound to be a great book. It gets […]

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This is a Romanian love poem. The second stanza is my favorite! I’m not a professional translator but I hope I was able to convey the original message and to keep the poem’s beautiful … musicality. Enjoy! Me Without You By Adrian Paunescu And suddenly I understood that without […]

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Q: When do you start a trilogy in the middle? A: When you are a cheapskate minimalist! Someone recommended “The Barrytown Trilogy” to me and I couldn’t wait to start reading it. The problem is that I’m a minimalist cheapskate. I don’t like buying things and I definitely don’t like spending money on something before […]